I am a big Qobuz fan especially since their Qobuz Connect app which makes it easier to work with HiFi equipment without losing the audio quality

I personally think Siegfried is one of the least attractive characters in the cycle. I appreciate he is meant to dispense with all conventions and even all conventional morality but he is really pain in the arse

I suppose he gets the last (non speaking) word right at the end

I heard them play this programme (more or less) at Wigmore Hall (last?) year. Wonderful and was a great introdction to Messiaen's songs

It's in the UTMB 100 mile category but the actual race was about 120km

It is religious but there is a big element of turning everyday behaviour on its head therefore the dressing up and a lot of normally serious adults getting drunk (just on the day)!

Purim

I am not surprised that Apple has better search as I assume it's built on top of the Primephonic system they acquired which did seem to work like a normal database. Agree that Presto is the best of the rest. They actually have a concept of a specific work, not just text which matches a description

As a lay person I really don't have an intuitive understanding for why geopotential altitude is more useful for metoerology than actual pressures and altitudes. Is there a simple explanation?

Very difficult to choose just one. Probably either Billy Budd or Curlew River, a really interesting performance of which is on BBC4 at the moment

I thought it was astonishing

I am going to hear his Mahler 9 this evening. Very excited!